Blind Side (Healthy Family Relationships)

What makes a healthy family? Well in the movie " The Blinde Side" it depicts the importance of family, and what parents need to do in order to raise a happy, healthy family. Leah Anne Touhy a mother of the memphis family took strong effort in changing Michael Oher, a troublesome kid's life for the better. Leah brought Michael into the family as one of their own. Leah then saw that Michael Oher, was born into a family of 12, was held back 2 years in elementary school and had a horrible education record with a .6 GPA. Leah knowing these factors decided to adopt Michael and raise him to become the American football player of the Ravens he is today. This was only accomplished by the efforts of commitment and communication which was used throughout the entire movie.

Through the entire movie the Tuohy family used efforts of commitment and communication to change not only Michael's life but their own too. It started with the introduction of Leah Tuohy's son, S.J. to Michael who happily greeted himself. S.J. showed confidence in himself to let Michael know that you should smile. Later on Michael was found wandering the streets in the night cold when Leah Anne and her family were driving home from a play that her son was in. Leah Anne being the compassionate person she is stopped the car and got out to confront Michael and offered him a stay at their warm house for the night, Michael had no other place to go so he took it. Leah Anne set up a bed for him and made him comfortable. The next morning Michael was on his way to leave but Leah Anne stopped him in his tracks and brought him back in. This showed Leah Anne's caring for other people.

It happened to be thanksgiving that day and the family was huddled around the couch watching tv while Michael was eating off in the dining room. Leah Anne quickly observed this and brought everyone to the dining table so that all of them would celebrate thanksgiving as a family...

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Self Concept: Ann Tuohy meets criticism from her friends as to what she is doing with a black boy she actually calls her son. She tells them why Michael needs foster family. Michael on the other hand despite his poverty and not an academic giant is determined for success from any angle of life. His determination in life makes him utilize the opportunity he got and became successful both academically, sports and social life.
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Verbal Communication (feedback): The first time Michael was showed a place to sleep he did not accept, Ann was amazed and showed him a bedroom option. Surprised Ann; she did not expect Michael to complain but he did.
Non Verbal communication: Michael is not talkative. Before the accident scene he gave Sean Junior an eye and hand gestures to ask her mom allow them go out with the car. More gestures could be used in school and sports scenes....

...﻿The BlindSide
1. The blindside
2. Michael Lewis
3. 2009, 2006 by Michael Lewis
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...Six Discipline Lessons Used by Leigh Anne Tuohy from “The BlindSide”
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No leadership whatsoever.
This sounds like something so wild and outlandish that it may actually work! Bend to the child’s every demand, and reward misbehavior. Disillusioned parents will try to look past the fact that their kids are not learning any responsibilities, demanding them around like servants, and progressing slower with behavior issues than other children their age....

...The BlindSide: Do You Have Any Place to Stay
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October 9, 2011
The BlindSide: Do You Have Any Place to Stay?
Based on the 2006 book The BlindSide: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis, the 2009 film The BlindSide is the true story of Michael Oher. Oher is an under privileged African American teenager living on the streets of Memphis who is taken in and adopted by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, an affluent white couple. As much as the Tuohy family changed Michael’s life he may have changed theirs even more. With no real special effects to speak of, the design team had to rely on the basics such as lighting, camera angle, costumes, and props to recreate the events and capture the feel of the story. A look into the scene where Michael is first approached by Leigh Anne Tuohy and invited into their home will give a good indication whether or not they were able to accomplish their task.
The responsibility of creating a quality motion picture lies with the members of the design team. Individually and collectively the director, production designer, art director, and cinematographer must combine their knowledge and creative abilities to create a great movie. Each of these areas is vital to creating a great movie that will capture the viewers’ attention and make the movie an enjoyable...

...Paradise Lost is an epic poem in the blank very by the poet John Milton. The poem is written in the omniscient third person point of view. Paradise Lost concerns the temptations that Adam and Eve encountered by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
John Milton uses the literary techniques of metaphor, characterization and symbolism to identify and reveal Satan. In this excerpt of Paradise Lost, Satan appears to be a serpent. Satan is characterized as being very persuasive. Satan pressures Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. Satan often is symbolized as the temptations in life. Satan is being symbolized to that because he likes to lure people into things that are considered to be the wrong thing to do. Satan was capable of getting Eve to eat the fruit in the end, by his use of persuasion. Also the forbidden fruit can also symbolize temptations in this poem.
The use of characterization, diction, and symbolism were portrayed to reveal Eve. Milton uses diction by the line that says “Into her heart too easy entrance won.” This line determines that Eve easily fell for Satan’s tricks. Eve can be characterized as easily deceived. She was tempted by hunger. The eating of the fruit could be called the “fall from innocence”. Eve can be symbolized to mankind or human nature. Eve was faced with the pressures in life, which caused her to eat the forbidden fruit, even though she knew it was the wrong thing to do. Also the pressures that Eve...

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Introduction
The movie The BlindSide is about a homeless, male, African-American teenager Michael Oher (Big Mike) who is taken in by the Tuohy family. Michael grew up never knowing who his father was and his mother wasn’t anything but a drug addict who he was taken away from when he was a child. Michael had very little education but had preformed strong in “protective instincts” which is later on used to help motivate his football skills and eventually shape his football career. The Tuohy’s provided Michael not only with a home and a kind loving family, but as well as a tutor to help him get the grades he needed to become eligible for the NCAA Divisions I athletic scholarship (Hancock, 2009).
Bronfenbrenner’s study on the Ecological Theory says that the microsystem is interpersonal relationships that are experienced by the person in a person-to-person setting where they interact with the individual on a daily basis (Bronfenbrenner, U., 1997, p. 39). In this movie the 2 main contexts that help shape Michael’s development through the rest of his adolescents is his adoptive family and his teachers and coach at school. These two contexts mix into the category, which Bronfenbrenner considered the mesosystem as they in relation to Michael, shape the other as Michaels education improved greatly due to the support form his adoptive family.
In Kathryn Wentzel’s study she measured...